D&D 5E CoS: Blood Spear OP?

[Guest 6801328]

Well, I have never had to deal with a difficult player as an adult. We are a like minded bunch who would never harm a squirrel, no matter what the incentive.

But D&D is only fun if you play with people on the same wavelength.

I know of some players who, if you told them squirrels didn't work, would go on a murder rampage in the nearest village.

Yup, it's a role playing opportunity. It's not going to break anything*, how the party feels about killing squirrels is up to them. I suspect my players would rather kill peasants than woodland animals!

*Unless a very low level character gets a hold of it.

I'm a little dumbstruck, honestly.

 

[jaelis]

Murderhobos gonna murderhobo.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

D&D is a collaborative group game. The goal is for EVERYONE at the table to have fun. One player constantly striving to exploit (and often abuse) the game/system generally leads to annoyance and distraction at the table which drastically takes away from that fun.

Now, if everyone at the table is set on the same course and all agree that it's a goal to exploit the system as much as possible? Maybe that's different - but I've never seen a group like this - much more often it's one person, who sucks the fun from the rest of the table.

Play with cool people; don't play with uncool people.

One person's version of cool might differ from another's, but there's no point wasting time hanging with people who don't suit you.

 

[Flamestrike]

I'm a little dumbstruck, honestly.

They're Chaotic Good.

 

[Mort]

Play with cool people; don't play with uncool people.

One person's version of cool might differ from another's, but there's no point wasting time hanging with people who don't suit you.

I 100% agree.

That's not what you said in your original post though.

 

[the Jester]

They're Chaotic Good.

Not if they're murdering peasants, they're not!

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

I think the "bag of rats" aspect is fine.

Real life rewards people who exploit the system, why shouldn't the game? Now, certain characters might decide they would never stoop to those exploits. That, however, is the prerogative of the player, in my opinion.

The DM decides how the game works. Inside of that box, the DM shouldn't need to arbitrarily limit the player; the DM is the one who proposed or agreed to the box in the first place.

An exploit works within RAW. A cheat woks outside RAW.
There really is no "bag of rats" aspect on this THP issue, by RAW, so that's a cheat, not an exploit.

Of course, real life often rewards people who cheat the system, too, so there's that.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

I 100% agree.

That's not what you said in your original post though.

Yes it is. The DM defines "cool" (the box) and should let players be "cool" inside that definition. No need to limit "cool" if it's well defined.

 

[the Jester]

An exploit works within RAW. A cheat woks outside RAW.
There really is no "bag of rats" aspect on this THP issue, by RAW, so that's a cheat, not an exploit.

Huh? It seems to work fine within the context of RAW. I'm not sure what you mean here.

 

[jaelis]

Huh? It seems to work fine within the context of RAW. I'm not sure what you mean here.

I think it’s whether you want the temp hp to stack.